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Parallel port I/O Addressing and Mapping

Anonymous
2012-02-18T21:59:20+00:00

I installed a PCI parallel port card so that I could start programming a development board but I cannot access the parallel port because Windows assigned it I/O address ranges of 9800-9807, 9480-9487, and 9400-941F. I need the port to be using the ISA standard LPT addresses of either 0x378, 0x278, or 0x3bc. In device manager under the Resources tab for the port, I cannot uncheck Use Automatic Settings, otherwise I would have manually configured the port myself. How can I configure the port to use the standard ISA addresses? The parallel port card is a Siig model JJ-P11012-S6 and I am using Windows 7 64-bit. A USB parallel port dongle will not work for the development board and I have tried using XP Mode in Windows Virtual Machine but I cannot get it to find my parallel port. The parallel port card does function and is brand new. My motherboard (MB) is an Asus Crosshair IV Formula and the BIOS does not give any details regarding PCI and parallel settings since it is a legacy-free MB. I am almost convinced it is due to ACPI handling the hardware addressing, but there has to be some way to use this port under the required address.

Regards,

Anthony

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-02-19T19:11:00+00:00

    Okay thank you. Here is the thread link in case anyone would like a follow-up:

    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprohardware/thread/8c4c7309-2e2a-4f0b-8f89-89a8dec3d269

    Anthony

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